Creativity Exercise - week 1

 

Hey y’all, welcome back to another weekly blog. This time around I wanted to slow things down and mess with a creativity exercise that proves you don’t need more freedom to be creative sometimes you need less. This one pulls from that famous Ernest Hemingway idea: tell a full story using only six words. No fluff, no explaining yourself, just straight to the point.

I gave myself about 30 minutes, set a hard rule of six words only, and challenged myself to jump between totally different topics. What surprised me most was how limiting the word count actually made me think harder about meaning, tone, and what not to say. Every word had to earn its place. Here’s what I came up with:

  1. Camera clicked. Moment gone. Memory stayed.

  2. He packed dreams heavier than clothes.

  3. Coffee cold. Deadline closer. Brain panicked.

  4. She smiled. Silence answered everything.

  5. New city. Old fears. Fresh beginnings.

  6. Controller down. Victory felt strangely empty.

  7. Rain stopped. Streets breathed again.

  8. Started late. Still arrived exactly right.

This exercise felt simple on paper, but it was way deeper than I expected. Cutting things down to six words forces you to trust the reader, trust the emotion, and trust yourself as a storyteller. It’s honestly a great reminder for design too sometimes saying less hits way harder than overexplaining. Definitely keeping this one in my back pocket for future creative blocks.

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